Herman de Vries de Heekelingen

Herman de Vries de Heekelingen (18 June 1880 – 27 July 1942) was a Dutch scholar and author who lived the latter half of his life in Switzerland. He was professor of palaeography at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (with specialization in archaeology, prehistory, and ancient history) and was director of its library from 1923–1927.

De Vries authored of a number of books on the Jewish question, and has been described as an antisemitic ideologue.

Life De Vries was born in Groningen, Netherlands, and raised in a well-to-do Calvinist merchant family. In 1908, he converted to Roman Catholicism, and began his studies at the University of Fribourg, where he received his doctorate in 1917 with a thesis on Geneva as the birthplace of Dutch Calvinism. He acquired Swiss citizenship in 1921. In 1923, he was appointed to the newly established as associate professor of palaeography and diplomatics, and head of the University Library. His politics were anti-modernist and Integralist, and he was a member of the right-leaning Catholic . Prior to testifying, De Vries reportedly traveled to Rome to consult with Augustin Bea.

Works Genève pépinière du calvinisme hollandais (Fribourg: Fragnière frères, 1918; Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1980, ) Les lois somptuaires de la République de Genève au XVIe siècle (Bern: Imprimerie K.-J. Wyss Erben, 1918) Correspondance de Bonaventura Vulcanius pendant son sejour à Cologne, Genève et Bâle (1573-1577) (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1923) Genève pépinière du calvinisme hollandais. Tome II. Correspondance des Élèves de Théodore de Bèze après leur départ de Genève (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1924; Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1980, ) Carmina Arminii: Quelques poésies de Jacques Arminius composées pendant son séjour en Suisse. Publiées ... et annotées par H. de Vries de Heekelingen (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1925) Un portrait inconnu de Théodore de Bèze: Avec la reproduction de 5 portraits (Alençon: Corbière & Jugain, 1925) Universiteitsbibliotheek en instituutsboekerijen: antwoord aan Prof. Dr. W. Mulder (Nijmegen: Katholieke Universiteit, 1927) Het fascisme en zijn resultaten (Oisterwijk: "Oisterwijk", 1927) An Italian translation by S. Biraghi Lossetti was published as Il fascismo e i suoi risultati (Milan: Alpes, 1927) Published in French as Fascisme et ses résultats (Brussels: Social Éditions, 1928) Die nationalsozialistische Weltanschauung: Ein Wegweiser durch die nationalsozialistische Literatur: 500 markante Zitate, zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Univ. Prof. Dr. H. de Vries de Heekelingen (Berlin-Charlottenburg: Pan-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1932) Israél. Son passé. Son avenir (Paris: Perrin, 1937) Published in Italian as Israele; il suo passato, il suo avvenire (Rome: Tumminelli, 1937) A Polish translation by J.M. Czerniewskiej was published as Izrael, jego przeszłość i przyszłość with a foreword by Ludomiła Czerniewskiego (Poznań: Ksiegarnia Św. Wojciecha, 1938; Komorów: Wydawnictwo Antyk Marcin Dybowski, 2011) Published in Spanish as Israel. Son passé. Son avenir (Buenos Aires: Editorial La Mazorca, 1939) A Swedish translation by Olof Örström was published as Israel: Historia och leverne genom tiderna (Stockholm: Svea rike, 1940) A Dutch translation by J. van Starkenburg was published as De Joden in de Christelijke samenleving (Oisterwijk: Uitgeverij "Oisterwijk", 1938) De Joodsche hoogmoed (Amsterdam: Amsterdamsche Keurkamer, 1937) L'orgueil juif (Paris: Revue internationale des sociétés secrètes, 1938) Published in Spanish as El orgullo judío (Buenos Aires: Editorial La Mazorca, 1944) Les Protocoles des sages de Sion constituent-ils un faux? (Lausanne: Typ. A. Rochat-Pache, 1938) Juifs et catholiques (Paris: B. Grasset, 1939) Le Talmud et le non-juif: une expertise preparée pour le Tribunal d'Oron siégeant à Lausanne les 15, 16 et 17 janvier 1940; contenant une critique de l'expertise de Emile Golay et quelques commentaires sur l'expertise de Max Haller (Neuchâtel: V. Attinger, 1940; printed in Rome) L'Antisémitisme italien (Florence: F. Le Monnier, 1940) Published in English as The Jewish Question in Italy (London: Final Conflict, 2002, ) Le peuple juif. Édition définitive de "Israël, son passé, son avenir" (Brussels: Éditions de la Phalange, 1942) Het Joodsche volk, with a foreword by René Lambrichts (Brussels: Uitg. "De Phalanx", 1942)